[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 154 (Thursday, August 10, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40822-40823]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-19817]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
(C-475-817)


Notice of Countervailing Duty Order: Oil Country Tubular Goods 
(``OCTG'') From Italy

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 10, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter Wilkniss, Office of 
Countervailing Investigations, Import Administration, U.S. Department 
of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20230; telephone (202) 482-0588.

Applicable Statute and Regulations

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute and to the 
Department's regulations are in reference to the provisions as they 
existed on December 31, 1994.

Scope of Investigation and Order

    In its final determination, the Department determined that oil 
country tubular goods (OCTG) comprised a single class or kind of 
merchandise. In its final determination, the International Trade 
Commission (ITC) found two like products:
    (1) Drill pipe and (2) OCTG other than drill pipe (i.e., casing and 
tubing). The ITC did not find material injury, or threat of material 
injury with regard to drill pipe. Consequently, the countervailing duty 
order covers only OCTG other than drill pipe.
    The merchandise covered by this order are OCTG, hollow steel 
products of circular cross-section, including only oil well casing and 
tubing pipe, of iron (other than cast iron) or steel (both carbon and 
alloy), whether seamless or welded, whether or not conforming to 
American Petroleum Institute (API) or non-API specifications, whether 
finished or unfinished (including green tubes and limited service OCTG 
products). This scope does not cover casing or tubing pipe containing 
10.5 percent or more of chromium, or drill pipe. The OCTG subject to 
this order are currently classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule 
of the United States (HTSUS) under item numbers:

7304.20.10.10, 7304.20.10.20, 7304.20.10.30, 7304.20.10.40, 
7304.20.10.50, 7304.20.10.60, 7304.20.10.80, 7304.20.20.10, 
7304.20.20.20, 7304.20.20.30, 7304.20.20.40, 7304.20.20.50, 
7304.20.20.60, 7304.20.20.80, 7304.20.30.10, 7304.20.30.20, 
7304.20.30.30, 7304.20.30.40, 7304.20.30.50, 7304.20.30.60, 
7304.20.30.80, 7304.20.40.10, 

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7304.20.40.20, 7304.20.40.30, 7304.20.40.40, 7304.20.40.50, 
7304.20.40.60, 7304.20.40.80, 7304.20.50.15, 7304.20.50.30, 
7304.20.50.45, 7304.20.50.60, 7304.20.50.75, 7304.20.60.15, 
7304.20.60.30, 7304.20.60.45, 7304.20.60.60, 7304.20.60.75, 
7305.20.20.00, 7305.20.40.00, 7305.20.60.00, 7305.20.80.00, 
7306.20.10.30, 7306.20.10.90, 7306.20.20.00, 7306.20.30.00, 
7306.20.40.00, 7306.20.60.10, 7306.20.60.50, 7306.20.80.10, and 
7306.20.80.50.

    Drill pipe is classifiable under HTSUS item numbers 7304.20.70.00, 
7304.20.80.30, 7304.20.80.45, and 7304.20.80.60. However, pursuant to 
the ITC's negative determination regarding drill pipe, we have deleted 
these numbers from the scope of this order.
    Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and 
customs purposes, our written description of the scope of this 
proceeding is dispositive.

Countervailing Duty Order

    In accordance with section 705(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act) (19 U.S.C. 1671(a)), on June 19, 1995, the Department 
made its final determination that producers or exporters of OCTG in 
Italy receive benefits which constitute subsidies within the meaning of 
the countervailing duty law (60 FR 33577, June 28, 1995). On August 3, 
1995, in accordance with section 705(d) of the Act, the U.S. 
International Trade Commission (ITC) notified the Department that 
imports of OCTG from Italy materially injure a U.S. industry. 
Therefore, in accordance with sections 706 and 751 of the Act (19 
U.S.C. sections 1671e and 1675), the Department hereby directs United 
States Customs officers to assess, upon further advice by the 
administering authority pursuant to sections 706(a)(1) and 751 of the 
Act, countervailing duties equal to the amount of the estimated net 
subsidy on all entries of OCTG from Italy. These countervailing duties 
will be assessed on all unliquidated entries of OCTG from Italy 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 
December 2, 1994, the date on which the Department published its 
preliminary determination notice in the Federal Register (59 FR 61870), 
and before April 1, 1995, the date on which we instructed the U.S. 
Customs Service to discontinue the suspension of liquidation, and all 
entries and withdrawals for consumption made on or after the date of 
publication of this order in the Federal Register. Entries of OCTG made 
on or after April 1, 1995, and prior to the date of publication of this 
order in the Federal Register are not subject to the assessment of 
countervailing duties since we cannot suspend liquidation of the 
subject merchandise, begun on December 2, 1994, for more than 120 days 
without the issuance of a final affirmative ITC injury determination.
    On or after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register, U.S. Customs officers must require, at the same time as 
importers would normally deposit estimated duties of this merchandise, 
the following cash deposit for OCTG from Italy.

OCTG

Country-Wide Ad Valorem Rate 1.47 Percent.
    This notice constitutes the countervailing duty order with respect 
to OCTG from Italy, pursuant to section 706 of the Act. Interested 
parties may contact the Central Records Unit, Room B-099 of the Main 
Commerce Building, for copies of an updated list of countervailing duty 
orders currently in effect. This order is published in accordance with 
section 706 of the Act and 19 CFR 355.21.

    Dated: August 4, 1995.
Susan G. Esserman.
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 95-19817 Filed 8-9-95; 8:45 am]
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